Dr. Walter Piper devoted his life to studying marshes in Northwood Lakes, Wisconsin, but in his 27 years of bird study, he never saw what the trainee noticed last June.

Researcher Alina Lomery spotted a chick using a mating pair, but noticed that her baby’s chick is very similar to a mallard duck. This seemed very unlikely, since the two species are natural enemies, but a closer look confirmed this. The colonists adopted an orphan.

You could not believe it. Dr. Piper asked naturalist and photographer Linda Greenser to photograph an unusual family. Not only did she see a duck on the boy’s back, she also caught a mother who fed fish with a duck – a watermelon does not eat fish naturally, he is looking for plants and invertebrates in shallow water.

It also captured a duck diving underwater like lakes. Here, too, mallards do not dive underwater, like ducks or holidays, but dive headlong under the water.

Piper believed that an extraordinary family was founded because they needed each other so badly. The duck because he lost his parents and the dwarves because they lost their chick.

Scientists also documented what her husband was up to as part of the Loon project. On July 15, Piper wrote that “the little husband and duckling are still a close-knit family.” On July 23, he said that the cold bloomed and almost grew, his heavy tire almost flooded his adoptive father’s back.

“This is a completely new experience for a duck duck who knows that they can cope with getting food by removing it from their parents’ accounts and therefore standing on their backs,” said Piper.

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